Cornerback Theran Johnson and all of Wildcat Nation (is that even a thing?) are fired up to have B-Dawg
coming to Northwestern.
B-Dawg takes talents to Northwestern
in quest to satisfy his Big Ten craving
EVANSTON, Ill. — Of all the places B-Dawg could have wound up coaching in College Football 25, how did he end up at Northwestern University?
There were so many other appealing options.
To feed his fetish for playing on funky turf, he could have gone to Boise State (blue), Eastern Michigan (gray) or Coastal Carolina (teal).
The dirty little secret is that he originally signed with Coastal Carolina and began a dynasty, only to abort it when he accidentally simmed the third game of the season. An incredible fourth-quarter comeback in the opener at Jacksonville State will never make a dynasty report, but video of it does exist.
Discouraged, he opened up his recruitment process and headed to the shores of Lake Michigan, not too far from his home state of Michigan. (And, this time, he made sure to always keep a backup file after playing a game.)
The siren song of playing in the new-look Big Ten Conference was too powerful to resist.
“When you go the route of taking over a team in a lower-tier conference, you play so many games in venues that are just … meh,” B-Dawg said. “I crave excitement. I want to play in the Big House, The Shoe, the Rose Bowl, the Coliseum, Husky Stadium. There are so many cool stadiums — or is it stadia? — in the Big Ten that every game will feel so much bigger.”
B-Dawg is a life-long Michigan fan but, even though the real-life Wolverines are looking like a rebuilding job, they aren’t much of a challenge for true dynasty mode buffs in College Football 25. Northwestern fits the bill of B-Dawg’s previous stop, Vanderbilt in NCAA ’14, of being a weaker program in a power conference. When your academic standards are high, it doesn’t tend to attract elite athletes. They’ll go to the SEC or Ohio State where the whole “student-athlete” thing is a complete sham.
In truth, the real-life Wildcats aren’t all too shabby. They went 8-5 in 2023, beating Utah 14-7 in the Las Vegas Bowl. Northwestern wants to take its program to the next level, so the boosters ponied up and came hard after B-Dawg with the proverbial bag.
He takes over a team that is ranked 81 OVR, 82 on offense and 81 on defense. His coaching prestige is C-minus. (They obviously don’t know who he is.)
The alumnus of the University of Michigan (hyphen Flint) has a pipeline in Michigan, safe job security and has been tasked with the goal of winning five games. If the Wildcats stumble against teams of their caliber early in the season as B-Dawg becomes familiar with the game and his team, a tough late-season Big Ten schedule could make that difficult.
There are some talented players on the Northwestern roster but, unfortunately, nearly all of them are seniors. The top player is 88 OVR middle linebacker Xander Mueller. The six players ranked 83 OVR or higher are all fifth-year seniors. It could be a few years before he starts having 90 OVR players on the roster.
B-Dawg has been posting dynasties since his NCAA 2004 Michigan dynasty over at now-defunct MaddenMania (pouring a sip). His style is to take one team and use it for the entire lifespan of a game, with the except of the 11-year run of NCAA ’14. He used three teams in NCAA ’14, playing off and on.
He was patient before starting this dynasty, waiting until after the second major update in hopes he wouldn’t encounter as many of the dynasty glitches as people were encountering right away. (Spoiler alert: He didn’t.) This allows him to use the first roster update for this dynasty, hopefully getting more true freshmen from across the nation who will be stars in a few years.
B-Dawg started out this dynasty with a set of All-American sliders posted by Armor and Sword on Operation Sports. He quickly learned he would need to tweak said sliders to avoid hating life for ever playing this game. The sliders will be a work in progress as the first season or two move along, because there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all sliders. B-Dawg admits he’s a pretty mediocre player when matched up with live competition online, but with the right sliders he can fool the public into thinking he’s a superstar at the sticks.
If you’re not acquainted with B-Dawg’s work, here are his NCAA ’14 dynasties:
* B-DAWG'S VANDERBILT NCAA 2007/2014 FLASHBACK DYNASTY
* B-DAWG'S AIR FORCE DYNASTY
* B-DAWG'S WESTERN MICHIGAN DYNASTY
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